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Duterte signs 2017 record 3.35 trillion peso budget into law

It is 11.6% higher than 2016, allows more spending on roads, bridges, airports

Fri, Dec 23, 2016 - 5:50 AM

Mr Duterte with a copy of the 2017 3.35 trillion peso budget after signing it into a law during a ceremony at the presidential palace in Manila yesterday.

PHOTO: REUTERS

Manila

PHILIPPINE President Rodrigo Duterte signed 2017's record budget into law on Thursday, the first spending measure under his administration which he described as a response to the public's "clamour for change".